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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Sacagawea and the Corps of Discovery
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How Sacagawea came to the Corps. According to Google Maps, I could have reached Jackson 20 minutes or half an hour sooner had I made a non-stop drive and stayed on I-80 West to Rock Springs before turning north onto …
A gray whale and another devil
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When I reported on the segment of the trip from Deadwood to Sundance, I mentioned my stop at the Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center where I’d had the odd coincidence of crossing paths with the family from Maryland for the second …
Details and final thoughts about Matthew Shepard before wrapping up my day in Laramie
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A fuller portrait. There’s no question that Matthew Shepard was a bright young man. The child of an upper middle-class family, by the time he enrolled in college, he was a straight-A student who spoke three languages. Physically, though, he …
The other side of Sundance and a less than perfect icon – The less than perfect icon
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Far from an angel. Two benches sit on Quealy Plaza in front of the Arts and Humanities building on the campus of the University of Wyoming in Laramie. As you exit the building, the one on the right is distinguished …
The other side of Sundance and a less than perfect icon
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Without stopping, the drive from Sundance to Douglas through Cheyenne to Laramie crosses about 360 miles and requires five and a half hours more or less. The stops I recounted in the previous posts added minimally to the distance but …